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Update on co2
17 March 2017 > Climate changeOn the same theme as the piece a few days ago on carbon dioxide, William sent the following link to a piece published in the
Earth's Old Crust
17 March 2017 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/print408881453.html ... getting to the crust of the early earth is not easy as it has been overlain with a raft of later layers
Fossils
17 March 2017 > GeologyRobert sent in the link, http://crev.info/2017/03/rethinking-fossils/ ... where we have more new fossil discoveries that appear to be counter to uniformitarianism. The first batch of
Sat Nav and Aurorae
16 March 2017 > ElectromagnetismAt https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/auroras-affect-sat-nav-system... ... This is an interesting one as aurora are produced when gas particles in the Earth's atmosphere collide with charged particles emitted from
Weirding Humans
16 March 2017 > Climate changeAt https://phys.org/print408702531.html ... we have a strange paper here - but useful in the sense it provides another dimension to what is normally pushed our
Black Hole Choking
16 March 2017 > AstronomyMore on the feeding habits of black holes. This one is choking on the amount of material in its gullet - see https://phys.org/print408783134.html ... The
Rogue World
16 March 2017 > AstronomyAt www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4312926/Mysterious-space-object-... ... straight from the horses teeth, the source that Wikipedia refuses to accept as reliable. As they don't accept SIS as a serious
Piora Oscillation
16 March 2017 > CatastrophismWiki has a good piece on the Piora Oscillation, the official name for the period of global cooling that followed on from the 3200BC event.
Carbon Dioxide
15 March 2017 > Climate changeAt http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/scott-pruitt-is-absolutely-right-a... ... link sent in by William. One of Trump's fake news channels seems to have come up trumps by publishing this piece of
Black Hole Modelling
15 March 2017 > AstronomyThe latest piece of modelling a black hole is said to show a black hole can grow rapidly at the centre of a host galaxy
Tidal Disruption Events
13 March 2017 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/print408108341.html ... are impact craters laid down at random or is there a pattern. Do they occur periodically? This study suggests it is random.
Ava
12 March 2017 > ArchaeologyAva is the name given to a woman buried near Wick in northern Scotland over 4000 years ago. Beside her remains archaeologists found a beaker
Platinum
12 March 2017 > CatastrophismAt https://phys.org/print408280130.html ... a new study in Science Reports (March 9th) brings the Younger Dryas Impact Theory back to life after a couple of articles
Stone Age Aspirin
11 March 2017 > AnthropologyAt https://anthropology.net/2017/03/09/neanderthals-used-penicillin-and-asp... ... this story has been around for a week or so (see also https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/dental-plaque-dna-... ) ... a microbiologist at the University of Adelaide
Aborigines
11 March 2017 > AnthropologyAt https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/aboriginal-hair-sh... ... DNA derived from hair samples taken early last century have been analysed for MtDNA and they are said to show they have
Epic Wave
11 March 2017 > CatastrophismThe epic wave is greater by far than the rogue wave (see yesterday), by many orders of magnitude. At the southern end of Madagascar (Malagasy)
Rogue Waves
10 March 2017 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/print408197994.html ... a study finds that rogue waves are not as rare as thought. One of the steepest yet recorded passed by the North
Fossil Dinosaur Dinner
10 March 2017 > CatastrophismAt https://phys.org/print408099790.html ... a rare find of digested remains of food has been found inside the stomach of a dinosaur - fossilised. The find comes
dolmens
9 March 2017 > ArchaeologyWe had a long article in the March issue of Current Archaeology on dolmens in Pembrokeshire. There are a lot of dolmens along the western
Samuel Windsor
8 March 2017 > CatastrophismSam Windsor has commented on the sudden increase in geomagnetism in the 8th century BC by saying that if heavenly fire was part of the